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Bob Pinedo Cancer Care Award 2022 for Laurence Zitvogel.
View webinarWhat role can artists play in the plainly unjust and violent war in Ukraine?
View webinarEuropean Alliances of Academies: Contested Histories, Shared Futures (29 June 2022)
View webinarEuropean Alliances of Academies: Contested Histories, Shared Futures (28 June 2022)
View webinarClimate Narratives: The Intergenerational Climate Crimes Act
View webinarIn her lecture Upinder Singh, Professor of History, Ashoka University, Sonepat, India, argues that the fundamental template of ancient Indian political ideology and religious policy was established during the period c. 200 BCE-300 CE through a continuous dialogic process revealed in the manner in which kings inscribed their power on their realm. She does so by drawing on epigraphic evidence to focus on three themes.
View webinarThe Tractatus gives rise to many exciting issues of interpretation. The speakers of the Heyting Day will throw light on some of these issues, especially on Wittgenstein’s views on the nature of logic and on the role of the first person in the Tractatus.
View webinarHet IPCC klimaatrapport van 2022 maakt duidelijk dat de wereld grote risico’s loopt door de toenemende opwarming van de aarde. Ook is duidelijk dat maatregelen om de toenemende CO2 concentratie in de atmosfeer terug te brengen door de omschakeling van fossiele brandstoffen naar duurzame alternatieven, alleen niet voldoende zijn. Naast deze maatregelen zijn ook zogenaamde negatieve emissietechnologieën (NET) nodig om actief de CO2 concentratie in de atmosfeer te verminderen.
View webinarReligion plays an important role in the rhetoric used by the Russians to justify the war. Ukraine, and mostly Kiev, is presented by Russia as a cultural and religious asset for Russian identity and ambitions. What is more, the current war is interpreted as an existential and apocalyptic fight between good and evil.
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